On this day in History - Jan. 18

• 0336 - Saint Mark elected Catholic Pope.
• 0350 - General Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans, proclaims himself Emperor.
• 0474 - Leo II becomes briefly Byzantine emperor .
• 0532 - Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
• 0885 - Daigo was born (d. 0930). Emperor of Japan.
• 1270 - Santa Margarita de Hungría, nacimiento de, religiosa húngara.
• 1307 - German king Albrecht I makes his son Rudolf king of Bohemia.
• 1367 - King Peter I of Portugal dies in Estremoz (b. 8 Apr 1320).
• 1425 - Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March dies (b. 1391). English politician.
• 1471 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan dies (b. 1419).
• 1479 - Louis IX, the Rich, duke of Bayern (U of Ingolstadt), dies at 61.
• 1486 - King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV.
• 1520 - King Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Asunde.
• 1535 - Lima, Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro.
• 1543 - Alfonso Ferrabosco (I) was born (d. 1588). Italian composer.
• 1546 - Blasco Nuñez Vela dies in Ariaquiro, Peru (b. 1490). First viceroy of Peru.
• 1547 - Pietro Bembo dies (b. 1470). Italian Catholic cardinal.
• 1580 - Antonio Scandello dies at 63. Italian composer (Passion of John).
• 1583 - Margaret of Austria dies (b. 1522). Regent of the Netherlands.
• 1624 - Juan de Ovando Santarén Gómez de Loaisa y Rojas, was born in Málaga (d. 1706). Spanish poet.
• 1641 - François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois was born (d. 1691). French war minister.
• 1670 - Henry Morgan captures Panama.
• 1671 - El pirata inglés Henry John Morgan encabeza un ataque contra la ciudad de Panamá.
• 1672 - Antoine Houdar de la Motte was born (d. 1731). French writer.
• 1677 - Jan van Riebeeck dies (b. 1619). Dutch merchant.
• 1688 - Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset was born (d. 1765). Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
• 1689 - Montesquieu was born (d. 1755). French writer.
• 1701 - Frederick I becomes King of Prussia.
• 1733 - A polar bear was first exhibited in Boston.
• 1734 - Caspar Friedrich Wolff, was born [d. 1794]. German physiologist, known as the "founder of modern embryology. (" In Theoria Generationis" - 1759 ) .
• 1778 - Captain James Cook came across the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii).
• 1779 - Peter Roget was born London (d. 1869). English physician and lexicographer who, in 1814, invented a "log-log" slide rule for calculating the roots and powers of numbers (Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases -1852).
• 1782 - Daniel Webster was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire (d. 1852). American statesman, lawyer and orator.
• 1788 - The First Fleet, carrying convicts and sheep, arrived in Australia's Botany Bay.
• 1799 - Joseph Dixon was born (d. 15 Jun 1869). American inventor and manufacturer who pioneered in the industrial use of graphite and many other innovations.
• 1813 - Joseph Glidden was born (d. 9 Oct. 1906). American inventor; he was an Illinois farmer when he developed the design of the first commercial barbed wire, patented 24 Nov 1874, a product that would transform the West.
• 1825 - Sir Edward Frankland, was born (d. 9 Aug 1899). English chemist who was one of the first investigators in the field of structural chemistry, invented the chemical bond, and became known as the father of valency.
• 1840 - Henry Austin Dobson was born (d. 1921). English poet.
• 1842 - Albert Alonzo Ames was born (d. 1911). Mayor of Minneapolis.
• 1848 - Ioan Slavici was born (d. 1925). Transylvanian writer.
• 1849 - Edmund Barton was born (d. 1920). First Prime Minister of Australia
• 1850 - Seth Low was born (d. 1916). American politician.
• 1854 - Thomas Watson was born (d.13 Dec 1934). American inventor, telephone pioneer.
• 1861 - Georgia joins the Confederacy.
• 1861 - Hans Goldschmidt was born. German chemist who developed Welding Mixture
• 1862 - The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the American Civil War at the Battle of Mill Springs.
• 1862 - John Tyler dies (b. 1790). 10th President of the United States, member of the Congress of the Confederate States of America.
• 1867 - Rubén Darío was born. Nicaraguan poet.
• 1870 - Samuel Bailey dies (b. 1791). English philosopher and economist.
• 1871 - German Empire established The German Empire, forged as a result of diplomacy rather than an outpouring of popular nationalist feeling, was founded this day in 1871 in the aftermath of three successful wars by the North German state of Prussia. Wilhelm I of Germany becomes the first German Emperor.
• 1873 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton dies (b. 1803). English author.
• 1878 - Antoine César Becquerel dies (b. 1788). French physicist.
• 1878 - Argentina y Chile reconocen como límite entre ambos países la Cordillera de los Andes, en la línea "de las más altas cumbres" enunciada por el perito Francisco P. Moreno.
• 1882 - A.A. Milne was born (d. 1956). English author.
• 1884 - Dr William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the UK.
• 1886 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
• 1888 - Thomas Sopwith was born (d. 1989). British aviation pioneer.
• 1890 - Amadeo de Saboya dies (b. 1845). King of Spain.
• 1892 - José Dias Ferreira becomes Prime-Minister of Portugal.
• 1892 - Oliver Hardy was born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 7 Aug 1957). American comedian and actor. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy formed the most successful comedy act in Hollywood. Among others, they played in the films Duck Soup (1927), The Battle of the Century (1928), Two Tars (1928) and Big Business (1929). In 1932 the pair was awarded an Oscar for their performance in The Music Box.
• 1892 - Paul Rostock was born (d. 1956). German surgeon.
• 1896 - The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time.
• 1900 - Darío Gómez Serrato was born (d. 1985). Paraguayan poet and musician. His work includes Yasy Yateré and Visión de Patria.
• 1904 - Cary Grant was born in Bristol, Gloucestershire (d. 1986). English actor.
• 1905 - Joseph Bonanno was born (d. 2002). Italian-born gangster.
• 1906 - Bartolomé Mitre dies. Argentine militar, politician and writer. President of Republic (1862-1868).
• 1908 - Herman Snellen dies (b. 19 Feb 1834). Dutch ophthalmologist whose Snellen Chart imprinted with lines of black letters is used for testing visual acuity.
• 1908 - Jacob Bronowski was born (d. 22 Aug 1974). Polish-born British mathematician and man of letters who eloquently presented the case for the humanistic aspects of science.
• 1911 - Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, marking the first time an aircraft landed on a ship .
• 1912 - The ill-fated Scott expedition reached the South Pole, only to discover Amundsen had been there first.
• 1913 - Danny Kaye was born (d. 1987). American actor, singer, comedian.
• 1914 - Arno Schmidt was born (d. 1979). German author.
• 1914 - William Stafford was born (d. 1993). American poet.
• 1915 - Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to China in a bid to increase its power in east Asia.
• 1915 - Santiago Carrillo was born. Dirigent of PCE ( Partido Comunista Español = Spanish Communist Party).
• 1915 - Pancho Villa é proclamado presidente do México e assume poderes militares e civis.
• 1915 - Train crashes at Colima-Guadalajara Mexico, about 600 die .
• 1915 - Kaúlza de Arriaga was born (d. 2004). Portuguese general (Ver Guerra do Ultramar).
• 1916 - A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite struck a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri.
• 1919 - World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France. One the very day and the location of the founding of the German Reich, the peace conference intended to end WWI was opened in the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles. Delegates from 27 Allied countries conferred about the future of Europe.
• 1919 - Bentley Motors is founded.
• 1920 - Erupção do vulcão São Miguel, no México, que causa a morte de 6 mil pessoas.
• 1921 - Belding H. Scribner was born (d. 19 Jun 2003). American physician who invented the Scribner shunt, making long-term kidney dialysis possible.
• 1922 - Bob Bell was born (d. 1997). American clown.
• 1924 - Indulto a los asesinos de Eduardo Dato, presidente del Gobierno español.
• 1925 - Gilles Deleuze was born. French philosopher.
• 1927 - Empress Carlotta of Mexico dies (b. 1840).
• 1929 - Um violento terremoto destrói a cidade de Cumaná, na Venezuela.
• 1930 - Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo was born (d. 2004). Portuguese politician and Prime-Minister.
• 1931 - Chun Doo-hwan was born. President of South Korea.
• 1932 - Robert Anton Wilson was born. American author.
• 1933 - Ray Dolby was born. Physicist, engineer, and inventor of the Dolby Noise Reduction Systems.
• 1933 - John Boorman was born. Irish film director.
• 1934 - Revolta de trabalhadores vidreiros da Marinha Grande, contra o governo de Salazar.
• 1934 - Raymond Briggs was born. English writer and illustrator
• 1936 - Rudyard Kipling dies (b. 1865). British writer, Nobel Prize Literature 1907.
• 1937 - John Hume was born. Northern Irish politician, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998.
• 1938 - Curt Flood was born (d. 1977). Baseball player.
• 1939 - Louis Armstrong records Jeepers Creepers.
• 1940 - Kazimierz Tetmajer dies (b. 1865). Polish writer.
• 1941 - David Ruffin was born (d. 1991). American singer.
• 1941 - Doodles Weaver was born. Amnerican singer.
• 1943 - Kay Granger was born. American politician.
• 1943 - The Nazi siege of Leningrad was broken.
• 1943 - World War II: Soviet officials announce they have broken the Wehrmacht's siege of Leningrad.
• 1943 - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
• 1944 - The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City for the first time hosts a jazz concert; the performers are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.
• 1944 - Paul Keating was born. Twenty-fourth Prime Minister of Australia
• 1945 - Liberation of the Budapest ghetto by the Red Army.
• 1946 - Joseph Deiss was born. Swiss Federal Councilor
• 1947 - Takeshi Kitano was born. Japanese actor and director .
• 1949 - Philippe Starck was born. French designer
• 1950 - Gilles Villeneuve was born (d. 1982). Canadian racing driver.
• 1952 - R. Stevie Moore was born. American singer, songwriter, and home recording pioneer.
• 1952 - Curly Howard dies (b. 1903). American actor and comedian.
• 1953 - Brett Hudson was born. American actor.
• 1953 - Sir Evelyn Baring, Governor of Kenya, imposes a death penalty for all those who organise the taking of the Mau Mau oath.
• 1954 - Sydney Greenstreet dies (b. 1879). English actor.
• 1955 - Kevin Costner was born. Actor, director (Fandango, Silverado, Bull Durham...).
• 1956 - Sharon Mitchell was born. American actress.
• 1956 - Tom Bailey was born. British singer (Thompson Twins)
• 1958 - Willie O'Ree, the first African American National Hockey League player, make his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.
• 1959 - Nei Lisboa was born. Brazilian rock musician.
• 1961 - Mark Messier was born. Canadian hockey player.
• 1962 - Jeff Yagher was born. American actor
• 1963 - Otto Mann was born. Fictional bus driver from The Simpsons
• 1963 - Edward Charles Titchmarsh dies (b. Jun 1899). English mathematician whose contributions to analysis placed him in the forefront of his profession [Theory of Functions]
• 1964 - Plans are revealed for the World Trade Center in New York City.
• 1964 - The Beatles appear on the Billboard magazine charts for the first time.
• 1964 - Jane Horrocks was born. British actress
• 1965 - Dave Attell was born. American writer and comedian.
• 1966 - David Bautista was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1966 - Kathleen Norris dies (b. 1880). American writer.
• 1967 - Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler," is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life in prison.
• 1967 - Goose Tatum dies. American basketball player
• 1968 - Emmerico Nunes dies in Sines (b. 06 Jan 1888). Portuguese cartoonist.
• 1969 - Hans Freyer dies (b. 1887). German sociologist.
• 1970 - David O. McKay dies (b. 1873). President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• 1971 - Josep Guardiola Sala was born. Spanish football (soccer) player.
• 1975 - The Jeffersons debuts on CBS.
• 1976 - Iván Zamorano was born. Chilean football (soccer) player.
• 1976 - Marcelo Daniel Gallardo was born. Argentine football (soccer) player.
• 1977 - Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious "legionnaire's disease."
• 1977 - Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83.
• 1978 - The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
• 1979 - Troops in the Central African Republic suppress a youth led riot against the imposition of school uniforms.
• 1979 - Paulo Ferreira was born. Portuguese footballer.
• 1979 - Jay Chou was born. Taiwanese singer and producer.
• 1980 - Julius Peppers was born. American football player.
• 1980 - Pink Floyd's "Wall" hits #1 .
• 1980 - Sir Cecil Beaton dies (b. 1904). English fashion designer.
• 1982 - Quinn Allman was born. American musician (The Used) .
• 1983 - Samantha Mumba was born. Irish singer and actress
• 1983 - The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe Olympic medals to his family.
• 1983 - Arturo Illía dies. President of Argentina (1963-1966).
• 1984 - Ary dos Santos dies (b. 1937). Portuguese poet/ Faleceu o poeta português José Carlos Ary dos Santos.
• 1984 - Vassilis Tsitsanis dies (b. 1915). Greek singer and song writer of rebetiko
• 1985 - Antonio Gómez Cano dies. Spanish painter.
• 1985 - Wilfrid Brambell dies (b. 1912). Irish actor.
• 1985 - Manuel Antunes dies (b. 1918). Portuguese teacher and essayst.
• 1985 - A Federação Latino-Americana e do Caribe de Jornalistas Desportivos elege o brasileiro Joaquim Cruz o melhor atleta latino-americano de 1984.
• 1986 - 88 pessoas morrem em colisão de um avião em Santa Elena, na Guatemala.
• 1987 - Renato Guttuso, falecimento de pintor italiano.
• 1988 - Airliner crashes in SW China, killing all 108 on board .
• 1990 - Former preschool operators Raymond Buckey and his mother Peggy McMartin Buckey are acquitted in a Los Angeles, California court of 52 child molestation charges.
• 1990 - Washington, DC, Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
• 1991 - Iraqi Scud missiles hit Israel : Iraq has attacked two Israeli cities with Scud missiles, prompting fears that Israel may be drawn into the Gulf War / Durante a Guerra do Golfo, o Iraque lança oito mísseis contra Israel, com o objetivo de forçar o estado judeu a entrar no conflito.
• 1991 - O festival internacional de música, o “Rock in Rio” inicia no Rio de Janeiro .
• 1991 - Eastern Airlines shuts down after 62 years citing financial problems.
• 1991 - Leo Hurwitz was born. Documentary film producer.
• 1991 - La selección española de waterpolo consigue la medalla de oro en los Mundiales de natación.
• 1993 - All 50 states joined in the observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday.
• 1995 - Adolf Butenandt dies (b. 24 Mar 1903). German biochemist who was the co-winner (with Leopold Ruzicka) of the 1939 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for pioneering work (1929-34) on sex hormones.
• 1995 - In southern France near Vallon-Pont-d'Arc a network of caves are discovered that contain paintings and engravings that are 17,000 to 20,000 years old.
• 1995 - Lamberto Dini torna-se o novo primeiro-ministro da Itália.
• 1995 - Ron Luciano dies (b. 1937). Baseball umpire
• 1996 - O partido socialista da Grécia escolhe Costas Simtis como o novo primeiro-ministro do país, substituindo Andréas Papandreou.
• 1996 - O casamento de Lisa Marie Presley, filha de Elvis Presley, e do cantor Michael Jackson, chega ao fim depois de dois anos.
• 1996 - A cantora Madonna chega à Argentina para filmar Evita, filme de Alan Parker. Ela é recebida com protestos pela população.
• 1997 - In north west Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 3 Spanish aid workers, 3 soldiers and seriously wound one other.
• 1997 - Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided.
• 1997 - Paul Tsongas dies (b. 1941). U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (b. 1941)
• 1998 - Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the Bill Clinton - Monica Lewinsky affair story on his website The Drudge Report.
• 2000 - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky dies (b. 1897). Austrian architect.
• 2001 - Al Waxman dies (b. 1935). Canadian actor.
• 2001 - Alfredo Mañas dies. Spansih dramatist and playwright.
• 2002 - A Canadian Pacific Railway train carrying anhydrous ammonia derails outside of Minot, North Dakota, killing one man and calling into question the maintenance of CP track and the policy of voice-tracking used by Clear Channel Communications.
• 2003 - Canberra firestorm kills 4 and destroys 491 homes.
• 2003 - Richard Crenna dies (b. 1927). Actor.
• 2003 - Edward "The Sheik" Farhat dies (b. 1924). American professional wrestler.
• 2004 - A suicide truck bombing outside the headquarters of the U.S.-led coalition in Baghdad killed at least 31 people
• 2005 - A U.N. World Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe, Japan begins
• 2005 - Lamont Bentley dies (b. 1973). American actor.